March LA Drupal Meeting - Tue., 3/25, 7-9pm
We meet on the last Tuesday of the month at the Rich Media Institute.
Topics:
Tales From Drupalcon Boston 2008
Some LA Drupal members got to attend and speak at Drupalcon Boston 2008 and we'll hear from those folks what they saw, what was cool, what was new, and bits of what they learned at the four day convention.
Patterns and the future of Install Profiles
MikeyLikesIt was more than extatic about the new things called Patterns, which compliments Install Profiles and actually surpasses them. We'll hear what we may be using in the near future.
Where is Groups.Drupal.Org headed and how does this help LA Drupal?
Chris Charlton attended the g.d.o (groups.drupal.org) BoF session and has good news to report about our community portal and talks of a world-wide video simulcast where Drupal user groups from all over would get together online and record a fun online event that hasn't been tried before.
Recap Drupal Keynote from Drupalcon Boston 2008
Covering the slim basics of what the Drupal keynote covered about the Drupal community, Drupal 6.x, Drupal 7.x, and the new law of the land - testing. Many key points were mentioned in this updated state of the union from Dries, so members who attended the con will talk about the important must-knows.
Open Mic
The topics above are only casual topics from Drupalcon but anyone can ask or talk talk about a session that was at Drupalcon Boston 2008.
Better Drupal Interactivity with Flex (L.A. Edition)
In our only official presentation of the evening, Chris Charlton, who spoke at Drupalcon Boston, is doing an encore of taking Drupal away from the HTML mentality and seeing an evolution by looking at Flex and how it can enhance Drupal's power. Learn what's the same and different between Flash and Flex, plus HTML/JS versus Flex!
Upcoming.org event group: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/4205/
LADrupal website: http://ladrupal.org
Ical feed
This will be good
This will be an excellent meeting, I'm sure - there's a TON going on!
At the time of my post here's some of the news that makes me excited:
* www.acquia.com and what it means to the future of Drupal
* Dr6 release
* over $125,000 in sponsorships
* 127 sessions / over 400 registered attendees for duplicon
And not to split hairs, but OSCON 2005, (before it was actually called drupalcon) was held in Portland, Oregon. , This was shortly after OSU began hosting the Drupal project (which came shortly AFTER the project crashed). Here is some great drupal history -> http://drupal.org/newsletter/2005/july
yes, I'm going to druplicon. hope to see you. if not, be glad to share when I get back.
I'll be happy
to contribute to this.
FWIW, there was a Drupalcon at Yahoo in Sunnyvale last year and at the Open Source CMS Summit in Vancouver (well, it is North America) in 2006.
sunnyvale was great
plus there was a lullabot seminar and a day of hacking.
Here's a little video taste: http://ladrupal.org/blog/markus_sandy/cck_embedded_media_field_blip_tv_v...
markus
Too Sick...
Really bummed to miss the presentations tonight, but I'm too sick to make it down to this one. See you guys at the next one.
-Crystal
Get Well Soon ...
We'll miss having you there.
Alas, I'll be missing the meeting also
Not sick, "just" picking up spouse from LAX--and I really want to hear the talk and get filled in on the wonders of DrupalCon. Have fun.
Steve
Cool meeting
We had a fun meeting last night. Much more loose than our recent meetings, but everyone seemed satisfied with the stuff they were learning throughout the night about Drupal's future, community initiatives, and again we had about half 1st timers - which is always cool.
I've updated info for our April meeting and I just announced our upcoming May meeting.
1st timer that "almost" made it
I really tried to make it but a job had me in the valley 'til 6pm & since it would've been my first time attending, I didn't want to show up at 8pm (imho, i think it a bit rude to show up that late). I'll meet y'all next month for sure. :)
I'd really like to be a contributing member when I show up, though, so aside from the Drupal Cookbook, drupal.org , lullabot & a youtube search, are there any other good links for a Drupal newbie to nibble on? =P